![]() The KGB arrested Tolkachev in 1985 and executed him. A fired CIA officer, Edward Lee Howard, sought revenge by selling agency secrets. The CIA soon considered him the crown jewel of their spying networks.Īnd then he was fatally betrayed. In a city teeming with KGB agents, he met 21 times with CIA officers over the next six years without being detected. As a senior engineer in a top-secret Soviet aerospace laboratory, he secretly photographed thousands of pages of highly classified blueprints, diagrams and reports on the latest airborne radars, avionics, guidance systems and fighter designs. ![]() ![]() Tolkachev had to approach the CIA seven times over the next year or so, once even banging on the car of the Moscow station chief to get his attention, before agents finally accepted his offer to betray his country. One wintry night in early 1977, during the depths of the Cold War, a furtive man approached a CIA officer at a gas station reserved for foreign diplomats in Moscow and slipped him a note offering to spy for America.ĬIA supervisors in Washington were so fearful of a KGB trap that they said no - repeatedly. ![]()
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